indie911 Launches Top Podcast from Sunset Strip.HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- indie911.com, the internet's leading independent music network, has announced that its podcast has reached over 10,000 downloads in its first week. The company attributes the viral nature of its success in part to its commitment to featuring credible, great new music. Helped along, perhaps, by The Dolls -- two gorgeous twin-model-DJ's narrating their way through themed podcast broadcasts with titles like "Hotties with Guitars," "American Roadtrip" and "Sex Fruit Challenge" -- a playlist A file that contains an index to a selected group of music files on the computer. Using digital jukebox software such as iTunes and Winamp, playlists are created by the user by dragging and dropping titles from a master index. The software may be able to create a playlist automatically. designed around, well, you'll have to subscribe on iTunes to find out. Although podcasting is a relatively new phenomenon, indie911 has been at the forefront of the online radio revolution for nearly two years. Their success on iTunes comes as little surprise to the site's loyal listener base. Indie911's "Heads & Tales" and "IndieCent Xposure" podcast series features the best "independent and un-dependent" new music with interviews from artists such as Willie Nelson, Martin Sexton Martin Sexton is a musician originally from the Syracuse, New York area, and the brother of musician Colleen Sexton. Background Sexton migrated to Boston in 1990 where he built a following singing around Harvard Square and gradually working his way into the club scene. , Grace Potter & The Nocturnals; Shipwreck shipwreck, complete or partial destruction of a vessel as a result of collision, fire, grounding, storm, explosion, or other mishap. In the ancient world sea travel was hazardous, but in modern times the number of shipwrecks due to nonhostile causes has steadily Union, Jennifer Paige Jennifer Paige (born September 3 1973) is an American singer-songwriter who rose to stardom in the early years of teen-pop spree and is probably best remembered for her 1998 pop hit "Crush" and her 2002 pop hit "Stranded". , Marla Sokoloff; Kevin Martin & The HiWatts, Hyim, Walkie Talkie, Tally Hall, Kari Kimmel & Anne McCue among others. While major labels sue their best customers for sharing music, cut their staff and drop artists who may not sell platinum, indie911.com has filled a void in the music business, enabling consumers and an expanding independent music sector to discover new artists and labels. Indie911 has grown fast -- over 1,000 new songs are added each month to an online playlist broadcasting over 55,000 songs for free to listeners. Podcasting is the quickest expanding new trend online. A Texas-based consumer technology research firm known as The Diffusion Group published a report recently anticipating a 60% growth of podcasting by digital music player Hardware or software that plays audio files encoded in MP3, AAC, WMA or other audio formats. There are several software-based music players that play audio files in a desktop or laptop computer, including iTunes, RealPlayer and Windows Media Player. owners in the next five years; enjoying a 101% compounding annual growth rate (CAGR CAGR See: Compound Annual Growth Rate ). Indie911 connects independent music with licensing and distribution opportunities and was developed by a dedicated and experienced team of professionals led by Justin Goldberg. Goldberg is a 15-year veteran of the music industry and is one of its best known digital music executives, having held executive positions with Sony, Tonos, Riffage and Dave Grohl's Laundry Room Records. A well-known advocate for independent artists, he has worked with artists ranging from Dee Dee Ramone This biographical article or section needs additional references for verification. Please help [ to improve this article] by adding additional sources. Unverifiable material about living persons must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. to Rage Against The Machine. |
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